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333148042Mercantilisman economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests. Only so much money and a nation won't benifit with out hurting another nation.0
333148043Great League of Peace and Powerconfederation of Iroquois tribes (military and spiritual alliance)1
333148044Northwest passagea water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America2
333148045Fur tradeThe trading of fur and animal pelts in the North because the Northern soil was not suitable for cash crops.3
333148046Metisa half-breed of white and Indian parentage4
333148047PuritansProtestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization.5
333148048Maroon communitygroup of escaped slaves in Latin America6
333148049Big whitesfrench plantation owners in Haiti and other Caribean places7
333148050Pawnsa person or entity of lesser stature, used for political or personal gain by those in power, those, especially women or children, whose individual lives are sacrificed to serve other's interests: a ruler's daughters married for purposes of state or family alliance; dependents sold into temporary slavery as collateral on a family debt; dependents given to a ruler as a sign of fealty8
333148051EkpePowerful slave trade institution that organized the supply and purchase of slaves inland from the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.9
333148052Asante stateLocated in present-day Ghana, this state was founded by the Asantes at the end of the seventeenth century. It grew in power in the next century because of its access to gold and its involvement in the slave trade.10
333148053East India Companyan English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and southeastern Asia11
333148054Tsara male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)12
333148055FluitschipsDutch shipping vessels that could carry heavy bulky cargo with relatively small crews.13
333148056Church of EnglandChurch created in England as a result of a political dispute between Henry VIII and the Pope, Pope would not let Henry divorce his wife14
333148057Seven Years' War (1756-1763)Conflict fought in Europe and its overseas colonies; in North America, known as the French and Indian War15

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